Bioethics and Biolaw as Bioeconomy Regulators

А. А. Мохов

doi:10.17803/2313-5395.2021.1.15.068-084

Abstract

The paper deals with the ethical and legal principles (foundations) of economy that have been important and required to a various extent at different stages in history. Advances in science and technology, emergence of modern biotechnologies, including the genetic ones, as well as shifts to new technological paradigms, on the one hand, make the emerging economy drift towards bioeconomy, and, on the other hand, increase the need for legal and ethical regulators. In view of the above, bioethics and biolaw begin to play an increasingly active role at the new stage of human civilization development. In Russia, the phenomena of bioethics and biolaw are at the initial stage of their institutionalization, they become more and more appealing due to the intensification of public debates, as well as due to an increase in the number of conflicts caused by the attempts to implement and broadly apply the achievements of biology, medicine and other sciences about life in daily practice.

Highlights

The paper deals with the ethical and legal principles of economy that have been important and required to a various extent at different stages in history
Advances in technologies require determining the main vectors of their development, as well as understanding — at various levels — of the inner logic of their development, which, in the present-day lawgoverned and welfare states, is unthinkable without an ethical and legal base
Bioethics is a system of standard, generally accepted, non-legislative rules

Summary

Introduction

The paper deals with the ethical and legal principles (foundations) of economy that have been important and required to a various extent at different stages in history. Despite some differences in approaches to understanding bioeconomy, it is based on an emerging biotechnological platform which is unique for the current time in history and allows, along with other modern (digital, management, etc.) technologies, both creating absolutely new products (goods, works, services), and significantly influencing the existing ones.

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